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Most parenting tools require you to be a perfect person in a perfect moment. Richard Dixson writes for the moments that are loud, exhausting, and real.

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The drama free parenting book

THE ROADMAP TO CALM

The Drama-Free Parent

How 9 Decisions will miraculously transform your parenting

Most parenting books are written for “standard” situations. This is the roadmap for the rest of us. It’s a trauma-informed guide to breaking generational patterns and leading your home with nervous system-based tools.

TOOLS FOR THEIR HEARTS

The Joy of Sharing A best-selling story that helps children move from the “mine” mindset to the “ours” mindset. Whimsical, energetic, and grounded in emotional regulation.

Sophie the Unicorn: A Magical Christmas Story

The Practice of Gratitude When children feel overwhelmed by expectations, Sophie helps them find the quiet power of being thankful. A holiday essential for every shelf.

Sophie the Unicorn: Cooking the Thanksgiving Meal Is a Very Big Deal

Moving Through Fear A trauma-informed children’s book designed to help kids identify where fear lives in their bodies and how to find safety again.

Sophie the Unicorn: No More Scares at the Halloween Fair

From Theory to Daily Life

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If your home feels tense, begin small.

Ongoing Support & Community Knowing the tools and practicing them are not the same. The Hub is a private community for biological, foster, and kinship parents to practice co-regulation alongside Richard and a village of peers who truly understand.

Richard Dixson parenting author

Meet Richard

Parenting did not arrive in Richard’s life neatly. It arrived through responsibility and a deep desire to do better for the children entrusted to him. Today, as an author and nervous system educator raising his own grandchildren, he brings a unique “kitchen-table authority” to the science of connection.

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I don’t write to impress parents. I write to steady them.